Quotes About Regulation

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

A lot of the other companies in the space have really left a bad taste in regulators' mouths. It's actually been a huge advantage when we come in and we take the time to sit down and get to know them, explain the business, explain what we do.

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

Don't tax more than you have to.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.